Hook and eye.



No. 767,013. PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904.

J. R. SGHRADER.

V HOOK AND EYE. I ABPLIOATION FILED JULY 22, 1903.

UNITED STATES Patented August 9, 1904.

JOHN R. SOHRADER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,013, dated August 9, 1904.

Application filer. July 22, 1903. Serial No. 166,615. (No model.)

To all whom it Tmty concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN R. Sonrmnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of devices commonly known as books and eyes.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved construction of hooks and eyes which can be easily manipulated and reliably interlocked, which operate wholly mechanically, so that no parts need be elastic, and which are so constructed that the parts are not liable to be distorted and rendered inoperative when the clothes to which they are attached are wrung through a wash-wringer.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an inner or rear viewof my improved hook and eye. showing the same engaged with each other. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the same. Figs. 3 and L are longitudinal sections of the same in lines 3 3 and 4 4., Fig. 1, respectively. Figs. 5 and 6 are cross-sections of the same in line 5 6. Fig. 1, looking in opposite directions.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings both hook and eye are formed of wire; but the same may be stamped out of sheet metal without affecting its operation, as no spring action takes place in engaging and disengaging the parts. The hook, which is preferably bent from a single piece of iron, comprises two side bars A A, each having the usual eyelet a at its rear end for attaching the same to the garment by sewing or otherwise. The front ends of the side bars are connected bya transverse bow B, the central portion of which is provided with a loop projecting rearwardly between the side bars. This loop enlarges rearwardly; so as to form a wide locking bill-head or enlargement c at its rear end and a narrow neck or contraction 0' between the head and the bow, as shown in Fig. 1. On opposite sides of the neck the bow is provided with a depression or seat 7), which is formed by depressing each part of the bow adjacent to the neck. The head of the loop is provided centrally with a transverse deflection or depression TD, forming forwardly-facing shoulders d on the front side of the head which are arranged substantially in line with and face the seats b of the bow. The eye is also preferably formed from a single piece of wire and comprises two side bars or members E E, each of which is provided at its rear end with an eyelet (,1, whereby the same may be attached to the garment by sewing in the usual man ner. At its front end the side bars of the eye are connected by a transverse bow F. Immediately in rear of this bow the side bars of the eye are bent downwardly, as shown at f, whereby the bow is depressed below the plane of the side bars, and forwardly and rearwardly facing shoulders f" f are formed on the side bars at the junction thereof with the cross-bow F. The front portions of the eye side bars and the bow connecting the same are constructed to form a contracted socket, which receives the neck of the hook member and which is narrower than the locking-head of the same. At a short distance in rear of the socket the side bars of the eye member are spread apart to form an enlargement or clearing opening 9 between the side bars of the eye intermediate of its bow and eyelets. which opening is wider than the head of the hook member.

In connecting the hook and eye the latter is first turned at right angles to the hook and then passed with its front end downwardly between the side bars of the hook in rear of the locking-head, as shown by dotted lines E, Fig. 4., in which position the central enlargement or clearing-opening is in line with the head of the hook. NVhile in this turned position the eye is moved forwardly in the hook until the side bars of the eye engage the bow of the hook, as indicated by dotted lines E Fig. 4:, whereby the clearing-opening of the eye is passed over the head of the hook. Upon now raising the eye and turning its rear end downwardly until the eye is substantially in line with the general direction of the hook the bow is arranged underneath the hook, the curved parts of the side bars will rest in the seats Z) of the hook, and the front and rear shoulders f f thereof will be arranged between the shoulders of the locking-head and the garment fastening.

the seat of the hook. This is the position which the hook and eye occupy when in use. Vhile the parts are in this position the same cannot be accidentally disengaged by a lengthwise movement of the parts relatively to each other, inasmuch as the outward longitudinal movement is arrested by the depressed part of the eye engaging with the depressed parts of the bow on the hook, while the longitudinal inward movement is arrested by the depressed part of the eye engaging with the depressed part of the locking-head on the hook. In detaching the hook and eye the parts are moved relatively to each other in the reverse order above described.

The operationof engaging or disengaging my improved hook and eye can be effected very easily and conveniently, inasmuch as the same contains no spring members the tension of which would have to be overcome in using Furthermore, the construction of this hook and eye is such that the same can be produced at very low cost, and the same is not liable to become distorted and rendered useless when run through a Wringer with the clothing to which they are attached, thereby avoiding the necessity of removing the hook and eye from the garment before washing the same, as is commonly the case with fastenings of this kind as heretofore constructed.

1 claim as my invention- 1. The combination of a hook havinga bow, and alocking-head or enlargement which is arranged in rear of said how and connected with the same by a contracted neck, and an eye provided at its front end with a contracted socket which is narrower than said head and 1 receives said neck and in rear of said socket with an enlargement or clearing -opening which is wider than said head and through which the latter passes freely in connecting or disconnecting the parts, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of a hook having a bow and a locking-head or enlargement which is arranged in rear of said bow and connected with the same by a contracted neck, and an eye provided at its front end with a contracted and laterally-deflected socket which is narrower than said head and receives said neck and in rear of said socket with an enlargement or clearing-opening which is wider than said head and through which the latter passes freely in connecting or disconnecting the parts, sub stantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a hook having a bow and a locking-head or enlargement which is arranged in rear of said bow and connected with the same by a contracted neck which is deflected outwardly, and an eye provided at its front end with a contracted socket which is narrower than said head and receives said neck and in rear of said socket with an enlargement or clearing-opening which is wider than said head and through which the latter passes freely in connecting and disconnecting the parts, substantially as set forth.

4:. The combination of a hook having a how, a locking-head or enlargement which is arranged in rear of said bow and connected with the same by a contracted neck and depressions or seats formed on the bow on opposite sides of said neck, and an eye provided at its front end with a contracted socket which is narrower than said head and in rear of said socket with an enlargement or clearing-opening which is wider than said head, said socket embracing the neck and resting in the seats of the hook and said clearing-opening permitting said head to pass freely through the same in connecting or disconnecting the parts, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination of a hook having two side bars, a bow connecting the front ends of the side bars, a locking-head or enlargement arranged in rear of said bow and connected with the same by a contracted neck, said bow having depressions on opposite sides of said neck forming seats and said head being depressed transversely in its central part forming shoulders on its front side which face said seats, and an eye having side bars which are connected at their front ends by a bow arranged underneath said neck, said eye side bars having their front portions contracted and embracing said neck and seated in the depressions or seats of the hook-bow, the rear portions of said eye side bars being separated and forming a clearing-opening for said head of the hook, and the side bars of the eye being bent downwardly in rear of its bow forming forwardly and rearwardly facing shoulders which are arranged between the shoulders of the head and the seats of the hookbow, substantially as set forth. v

Witness my hand this 1 1th day of July,

JOHN R. SCHRADER. Witnesses:

THEO. L. Porr, EMMA M. GRAHAM. 

